Necessity and the "Perverse" Supply of Labor in Pre-Classical British Political Economy

History of Political Economy

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 497-522

  Baird, Bruce C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

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